Trial Gallery

Trial of Anchors at the Royal Dockyard, Sheerness, July 1852

Engraving of a trial of various anchor designs, held at the Royal Dockyard Sheerness, from the Illustrated London News, 17th July 1852. This trial was held in the presence of mercantile shipowners and an Admiralty committee, in order to test the holding power of a number of anchors. These included the New Admiralty, Aylen's, Rodger's, Mitcheson's, Honibal's, Isaac's, Lenox's and Trotman's improved Porter anchor. Trotman's anchor was declared the winner

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Sketches at the Crippen trial

The Most Sensational Trial for Many Years. Sketches in court at the trial of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, accused of (and later hanged for) the murder of his wife Cora, known on the stage as Belle Elmore. The sketches include the jury examining an exhibit; Dr Crippen comparing the pattern of the fragment of flannel found with some of his old pyjamas; and Mr Muir cross-examining Crippen under the watchful eye of the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Alverstone

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Ardlamont Murder Trial

The Ardlamont murder trial - a scene in the Hig Court of Justiciary, Parliament House, Edinburgh. The prisoner sits towards the front with a policeman on either side

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